Munawar Hassan slams Vatican statement

LAHORE: The Jamaat e Islami cheif, Syed Munawar Hasan, has strongly reacted to the Vatican statement declaring the promotion of political Islam as a great threat, and said that the Vatican had also joined the crusade already going on against Islam and the Muslims.

Commenting on the Vatican statement, he said this showed that the entire talk of inter-faith dialogue and relations and tolerance were a farce.He said the world peace and the Middle East were threatened by the US- Israel collusion while Islam, the Islamic civilization and the Muslim masses were the target of biased Christian rulers, and now the Christian religious leaders too had joined them.

"This should be an eye opener for the Muslim rulers and the Quran burning plan of a priest and the Church was not simply a brain child of a singe mind as the whole Christ ian world and the Vatican were behind the move, " he pointed out.

The JI chief explained that Islam had its own political system, its culture and civilization, besides also delivering an economic system based on equity and service to the humanity.

Heberated the way the Western civilization and the capitalistic system had divided the humanity had added to poverty and started an arms race. "Islam provided political and economic solutions to the current human problems," he added.

Syed Munawar Hasan said following the 9/11, ex-US president George Bush had raised the slogan of Crusades with the intention to grab the Muslim world’s resources, and he had also described political Islam as a threat, and colonial powers had already divided the Muslims in different compartments and created mental disorder.

He said that the Middle East had been declared a danger zone for the Christians only due to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Iraq war. The Muslims were the victims in both cases and their lands had been occupied. Israel was a grabber and was involved in the genocide of the Palestinians but the Vatican had never condemned Israeli policies and on the other hand, Israel fully enjoyed the support of biased Christian.

He accused George Bush of telling the biggest lie of the century by blaming Iraq of having Weapons of Mass Destruction, which had not been found till today but under this pretext, millions of the Muslims were massacred.

"The Vatican should have condemned the conduct of the Christian government committing aggression instead of criticizing Islam and the Muslims,’ he said.

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